On the Little Big Shots episode “Steveosaurus Rex,” TV host Steve Harvey meets a number of smart kids including dinosaur expect Leo and 5-year-old librarian Daliyah Arana. Daliyah has met Harvey before. Last year the little lady from Atlanta, Georgia went on The Steve Harvey Show after reading more than 2,000 books. Daliyah’s mother Haleema Arana realized her daughter could read at the age of 18 months. At first she thought her daughter had just memorized the words in a book but Daliyah proved her mother wrong (in a good way).
Before entering kindergarten, Daliyah read 1,000 books. She says she reads on average two books a day but sometimes it could be ten. Last year, Daliyah got to be librarian for a day at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. with the 14th Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. Daliyah says the experience was better than jumping into a swimming pool. how cute is she? New episodes of Little Big Shots air Thursdays at 8pm on NBC.
